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I'm afraid I can be very old-fashioned sometimes, but I just love these ancient chants. So meditative! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMbkIsyOGsM

Ooops, my fault! Sorry, I linked the wrong page. Here’s the article I meant to link: http://www.tentmaker.org/books/Aion_lim.html However, an ambiguity is mentioned right there in your very own quote of A T Robertson. How come you don’t see it? It seems even he pretty much agrees that “αιων “...

Rather than accusing each other of eisegesis, in all fairness one ought to concede that the term the text uses is ambiguous: http://www.tentmaker.org/books/Aion_lim.html

I’m very aware of the limits of my understanding. One thing I do understand though is that neither I nor anybody else, not even a saint, knows more than our Lord Jesus Christ, who clearly told us that nobody, not even Himself, knows when that day and hour will come (Mt. 24:36). It doesn’t...

Sadly it seems you neither understood what I nor what Paul wrote. As for earthquakes and volcano-eruptions: surely you are aware that these aren’t recent phenomenons. In fact vulcanic and seismic activity are the very reason the earth with its continents and islands looks like it looks now. Here...

You are getting all worked up, because somebody thinks that that what God deems very good is worthy of appreciation and protection? That’s what God made us for: to behold the beauty of His creation and give Him praise! I strongly suggest we read scripture with less gloom and more joy in our...

If you think these are unmistakable verses about the sun, you certainly lack the poetic mind this ancient literature requires. The prophesies of Isaiah’s Assyrian cycle already have come true by the way: Assyria’s star sank between 612 BC and 599 BC. And obviously I am not talking about an...

I don’t think to believe Genesis when it plainly says that God’s creation is good is in any way ‘cultic’. To regard the natural world as bad is part of the manichean heresy. It is of course possible that in 2000 years of Christianity you’re the first Christian who’s intelligent enough to have...

Scripture and God’s book of nature are not in conflict, Whenever you think they are, you should contemplate the possibility that your interpretation of scripture may be wrong. Maybe this side can help you to show you how science (evolution or that the earth does indeed move around the sun, etc)...

Well, I suppose it’s a kind trick that God plays on our memory: we tend to remember the good better than the bad. Hence I too I’m prone to feel that the world still was rosy posy in the days of my childhood. But – as you’ve said for yourself – realistically speaking when I grew up in the 80ies...

Well, this isn’t exactly news. That haze happened last year. And yes, for a large part it was man-made: many fires were started by companies who wanted to clear land for palm oil plantations. One more reason to support environmentalist groups who stand up against this madness. As bad as this...

Hi there Sperling2, welcome to the forum. Sorry, but I had to remove your links. Posting links is not allowed until you’ve made 10 posts. Be blessed, junobet

The baby Jesus was a refugee in Egypt. Guess if Trump had been president there, he would have built a wall to keep him out. As a Christian I could never vote for xenophobes who deny help to people in need: Leviticus 19:33-34 “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do...

Well, that raises the question how Noah could have known which animal was clean and which was unclean. Even if he had already had the law of Moses, as far as I remember even that law doesn’t make specifications about elephants, polar bears, gorillas, Komodo dragons … . Maybe that’s why Noah...

Boy Trekson, no offense and our different understanding of “truth” aside: That’s not the way to catch a 7 year old’s attention! Is that what they put you through in Sunday-school? I dare say my Bible lessons were more fun than that and I do hope they helped to instill a basic love and trust in...

Did God lie when He decided not to destroy Nineveh after all? Would you be just as disappointed as Jonah was if everybody made it into heaven? Indeed, whereas we often feel the compulsion to take disproportionate vengeance, God chose to send Christ for the forgiveness of our sins. So I’d...

I’m afraid over here in Europe the opening of this ‘museum’ was just another occasion for the media to make fun of Christians. Very few articles cared to point out that most Christians are not Young Earth Creationists and deem this enterprise absolute bogus. In fact churches in Germany protested...

Please don’t get me wrong: It’s neither that I question your parenting skills nor that I condone child abuse. Alas, you did not really answer my question. Of course it is quite possible that you and I draw the line between reasonable discipline and child abuse in very different places...

I’m familiar enough with postmodernism to know that it’s a pretty wide field - so wide that the term itself is almost meaningless. Why exactly you associate the Jesus Seminar with postmodernism is unclear to me. Quests for the historical Jesus seem deeply ‘modern’ at heart. However, you’ll be...

Where do you draw the line between reasonable discipline and child abuse?